Nathan Kester
Nathan Kester
3rd degree connectionUX Engineer at Google Cloud
San Francisco Bay Area
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UX engineer at Google Cloud, responsible for developing dynamic experiences, demos, and UI design around cloud.google.com. Accomplishments included building contact sales forms, newsletter sign-ups, large-scale website redesigns and end-to-end Analytics tracking. Designed and built http... ...
Experience
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Company Name Google
Total Duration 11 yrs 1 mo
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Title UX Engineer
Dates Employed Jan 2016 – Present
Employment Duration 2 yrs 9 mos
Location Sunnyvale, CA
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Title Webmaster
Dates Employed Sep 2007 – Present
Employment Duration 11 yrs 1 mo
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Education
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Rochester Institute of Technology
Degree Name B.S.
Field Of Study Information Science
Dates attended or expected graduation –
Activities and Societies: college bowl team, theatre, snowboarding, rockclimbing, Asian Deaf Club, Kappa Phi Theta local fraternity, deaf computer club, worked as residential adviser at 'Explore Your Future' summer program, ten weeks.
-Received Maxine Forman scholarship for deaf students who were matriculated in Rochester Institute of Technology's B.S. program
-Was selected to visit a sister tech institution in China as NTID ambassador under PEN International organization
-Served three summer internships, to help gain work experience and develop career.
-IT intern at U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, VA. (performed 20 weeks; did demographics data reporting from MS Access and Excel, received star award from manager, was offered a permanent job but turned down to work in DC.)
-IT intern at U.S. Coast Guard in Miami, FL (10 weeks, 1.5 hr one way commute, zero absence, received star award from manager, assisted with tech support, designed an user interface in MS Access, and provided budgeting analysis)
-Web developer intern at Illinois School for the Deaf. (launched school website and one non-profit outreach organization named H.E.A.R.) -
Gallaudet University
Field Of Study Liberal Arts (undecided major)
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Activities and Societies: Street rollerblading in DC area, weightlifting (gained 10 lbs of muscle), running, learned how to play golf and joined golf club team.
-Took first-year courses
-Notable courses: Latin honors class, Biology, Programming 101 (Java and only two students took it; professor talked about writing programs to do your own statistics/analysis like compounded interests in finance, basketball statistics (wins/losses, averages, etc) and simple algorithms like binary search to find the target value.)
-Took 36 credits (18 each semester)
-Made Dean's List, Summa Cum Laude (4.0 GPA) -
Illinois School for the Deaf
Degree Name High School
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Attended ISD since age four after being adopted from South Korea. My parents also graduated from the same school. Graduated at top of class and gave a valedictorian speech. Received Rotary Club student-athlete award, among with other schools in the Jacksonville area.
Skills & Endorsements
Recommendations
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I've had the chance to help Nathan on different projects throughout the years at Google. He is very talented, quick learner, detail oriented, and most importantly always open and eager to learn new technologies and processes. He is also very proactive and cares about the people he works with, that makes him a really valuable technical asset to any organization.
